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DoD Plans More Emergency Response Prototyping Hackathons

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2017

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DoD Plans More Emergency Response Prototyping Hackathons

The Department of Defense’s innovation partnership unit, MD5, is building on its successful disaster relief capabilities event with two more events scheduled for early 2018 designed to bring together field experts and budding entrepreneurs to work on emergency solutions needed in complex environments.The DoD’s MD5 National Security Technology Accelerator wrapped up its emergency response prototyping event billed as a “hackathon” in Boston on July 28, where it partnered with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Innovation Initiative and the Advanced Functional…

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